Improvement in hoes



inittl giedre To' all whom it may concern:

Lns'rnn L. BOND, lor

oIIIc-Aeo, ILLINOIS.

19mm Patent No. 99,821, dated Femmy 15, 1870.

IMPROVEMENT IN HOES.

. The Schedule referred te in these Letters Patent and making part of the same.

Be it known that I, LESTER L. BOND, of the city of Chicago, ,in.the county of Cook, and State of Illinois, llaveinvented cert-ain new and useful Improvements in the Manufacture of Hoes; and Ido hereby declare that'the following is a. full, clear, and exact description of the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, making apart of this specilic-ation, in which` f 'l Figure 1 represents aside view with a portion of the handle.

Figure 2, a rear view of the hoe part.

Figure 3, a side view, with a different form of shank and inode of attaching the handle. l Figures 4, 5, and 6, rear views, with modification 0f hoes.`

The nature of my invention consists in constructing a hand hoe with a long sharp shank, so that the earth may be stirred or loosened beneath thesnrface in gardening and for other purposes. 4

To enable others skilled in the art to make and use my hoe,I will describe -its construction and operation.

A isthe tang, and Aan eye, by which an ordinary wood' handle, D, is attached to the hoe. n

B is a curved shank or blade, made thin and sharp at the front edge.

C ist-he' flanged or hoepart.

Iusually make my hoe of a single piece of v steel; but the part G may be made o f a separate piece, and riveted on if desired, and in size the best proportions vwill be to make the hoe ten inches high; that is, ten

inchesV from the lower'point of the hoe to theI end of the handle; the measurement to be in a straightliue. A greater distance will not injure its operation, while a lesser will detractsomewhat from its usefulness; but it will still be a valuable implement even with the sharp blade or shank of a length of only .three or four inches.

The shank or blade B is made o f' steel, and is about one inch iu width and three-sixteenths of an inch in thickness. A

' rlhe part() is made of the same material and thickness, and is from one to three inches across at the` heel, andis brought to a point in front, and made sharp at the edge-s. Its form may be varied as shown.

It is used to 'stir the ground down as deep as it has manufacture.

. LESTER L. BOND. Witnesses:

E. A. WEST, O. W. BOND. 

